Sometimes you might need to test certain functionality of a file system, e.g. if quotas are reported correctly. For this purpose you might want to upload a file on the server in specified size. You can easily create such a file using the command below: dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1024 count=1048576 if...

This article shows you how to install one of the most stable OS in a virtual environment using the VMWare virtualization server. This however should not frighten or disappoint you, as the technique is pretty much the same for non-virtual environment. First lets start with the Requirements A computer...

This is the second part of the “Virtual FreeBSD” tutorials series. In the first part we have installed the OS from the scratch by downloading most of it from the Internet. In this second tutorial we will customize the default shell and install a little bit more user-friendly one. But first...

This one is easy. However it took me a while before I found the sollution. Here is the scenario. You have an old serial wheel mouse and you do not want to buy a new one as the current is doing great its job :) If you try the Xorg auto configuration and fire up your favorite X window manager the mouse...